PUMPING PARISHES

GOING GOING GONE

Erewash Conservatives, who love cutting Borough Services, have pumped millions of pounds into Parish Councils for the last eight years. It is purely coincidental that many of them are also Parish Councillors. Whilst us urban folk have to pay through the nose for Town Centre car parking, pay for a recycling bin, fore-go a visit to the Leisure Centre on Bank Holidays, manage without free dog bags, manage without public toilets, Parish Councils have had a purple patch at our expense. I wouldn't mind it so much if the same people hadn't been against Town Councils for Ilkeston and Long Eaton. Whilst their own Government is trumpeting "localism" two hatted Erewash Councillors (or should that be two faced?) are stopping Ilkeston and Long Eaton folk from even having a vote on the issue!